BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13833, 19 February 1909, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Press Association-By Telegraph^Cppyrigul

A PROFESSOR: HONOURED. Feb. 17. Cambridge University lias bestowed a. Doctorship of Science upon Mr Stirling, Professor of Physiology at Adelaide University. 4 ...... . , A RECORD DESTROYER. The destroyer Swift, in her trials on the Clyde, attained a speed of 38 knots. . , ' , UNEMPLOYED IN LONDON. Several unemployed processions have been held iri London ; including 30,0(30 unemployed women, and 1000 children in the West End. ECCLESIASTICAL: .. LONDON, Feb. 18.. The Canterbury Convocation Committee, . which has sat for two years, recommend a. revised lectiohary as optional,' - eucharist vestment' as optional, Atlianasian Creed as optional, the omission where there are inariy communicants of ,the words "in remembrance" where used in administering bread and : wine, and optional immersion in baptism, and a new alternative .burial service of great beauty and simplicity. TRIAL FOR MURDER, The jury disagreed in Mrs Haskett's trial at Devizes for alleged murder of a cripple named Teddy on October 31st. THE THEATRE FIRE. MEXICO, Feb. 17. All the exits in the facade of .the Flores Theatre at.Acapulco, the scene of the recent terrible fire, were near the main entrance. The greatest loss of life occurred when the roof fell, stifling ■•the screams and groans of the struggling panic-stricken audience. DESPERATE ANARCHIST. BRUSSELS, Feb.. 17. Soiliger, a Russian anarchist, who shot and killed a police commissioner and a policeman, had manufactured a bomb which he intended to explode at the residence of. the Belgiaji Minister for the Colonies. Received 10.50 v.m., Feb. 18th. OBITUARY. ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 18. The death is reported of the Grand Duke Vladimir, the Czar's uncle, at St. Petersburg of asthma. THE "RIPPER" OUTRAGES. BERLIN, Feb. 18. The thirty-first outrage is reported from Berlin. The perpetrator of one outrage was caught in the act. THE KAISER'S THANKS. BERLIN, Feb. 18. The Kaiser has sent, to the German Ambassador at Paris his warm thanks for concluding the Morocco treaty, which the Kaiser states rendered King Edward's ,visit the; more, cordial.